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The catalogue of the Pavilion of Iraq at the 57th Venice Biennale, this book presents eight Iraqi artists of different generationsS herko Abbas, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Ali Arkady, Luay Fadhil, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Nadine Hatton, Jewad Selim, and Sakar Slemantoge ther with work made by Francis Alÿs when he was embedded with a battalion of Peshmerga near Mosul, and a stunning collection of arte facts from the Iraq Museum of Baghdad. For the majority of Iraqi artists, the past has become the only present, the only defence aga inst chang...[Read more]